author/journalist · 8/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 2 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | #41 | =41 |
| 3 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | #21 | — |
| 4 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | #82 | — |
| 5 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | Italo Calvino | — | |
| 6 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | =21 | |
| 7 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | #19 | =80 |
| 8 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 | =16 |
| 9 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | #15 | #12 |
| 10 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | #25 | =46 |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =21 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
Voters with the most books in common.